THE SECRET POLICEMAN’S USED CAR BARGAINS
Jul. 23rd, 2008 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogITEM [via BoingBoing]: In St Louis, cars that have been confiscated from crime suspects can legally be rented out by the towing company to cops and their families, who can also buy them for a fraction of the value.
According to the St Louis Post-Dispatch, the police chief’s daughter has been working her way through several such cars.
The police department says the whole operation has been declared legal by a law firm it hired, and the chief says he had no idea his daughter was getting such awesome deals.
Lovely.
Law and order,
This is dF
According to the St Louis Post-Dispatch, the police chief’s daughter has been working her way through several such cars.
On several occasions she had wrecked a car, then simply gone down to the towing service to get a 60-80 percent discount on a new one. After one accident, her blood-alcohol concentration tested at .17. She wasn't arrested or charged. The department says it has "no idea" why she was let go.
The police department says the whole operation has been declared legal by a law firm it hired, and the chief says he had no idea his daughter was getting such awesome deals.
Lovely.
Law and order,
This is dF
